Adieu to the great French stores?
As the catwalk season gets into full swing in Paris, a familiar element of the retail landscape is missing. Samaritaine, the famous department store — or grand magasin, as they call such monoliths over here — has closed. Flags no longer flutter proudly on the parapets of the imposing Art Deco building on Rue de Rivoli, overlooking the Seine. The loss stings: an equivalent trauma in London might be the closure of Selfridges.
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